Minority Health and Health Equity Archive
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Welcome to the Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA), an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.
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Item Barbershops become urban community health centers(2008) Coles, TerriAfrican-American communities in the shadows of the University of Pittsburgh's buildings are getting sick and dying sooner than their white counterparts, of preventable diseases -- and Dr. Stephen Thomas wants to change it. An outreach initiative involving local barbershops and beauty salons is a step in that direction.Item How a City Aims To Give Minorities Better Health Care: Pittsburgh Hopes To Satisfy 2010 Deadline By Using Voices With Street Cred'(2002) Martinez, BarbaraPittsburgh - The Rev. John Welch paused, dabbing at sweat on his receding hairline. Dapper in a double-breasted tan suit, he stood silent for a moment in the pulpit of the Bidwell United Presbyterian Church here, and then resumed speaking on a new topic. "God wants us to take preventive steps for our health," he exhorted. "Only when we are healthy can we help someone else." Raising his left arem heavenward, the minister said, "Lord, we have beennegligent of what you have entrusted us with." Then he told his followers to get their blood pressure checked right after the service, downstairs in the recreation hall, where nurses were waiting. It wasn't Mr. Welch's idea to lace his sermon with health tips. The move is part of a broad experiment led by the University of Pittsburgh that aims to erase the disparities in health care between the city's whites and blacks by the year 2010.Item Adventure Cycling's Innovative Underground Railroad Bicycle Route is Ready to Ride(2007) UNSPECIFIEDAfter three years of research and planning, Adventure Cycling Association, North America's largest bicycling organization, and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Minority Health are pleased to unveil the newly completed 2,058 mile Underground Railroad Bicycle Route (UGRR). A breakthrough in both historically-infused adventure travel and active-living outreach to the African-American community, the UGRR promises to introduce people of all cultural backgrounds to the adventure and health benefits of cycling and bicycle travel.Item Underground Railroad Bicycle Route: EXPLORING THE ROUTE TO FREEDOM(2007) UNSPECIFIEDThe history of this remarkable period comes alive as you pedal along the corridor that traces the Underground Railroad route from the Deep South to Canada. This bicycle route memorializes the Underground Railroad, a network of clandestine routes by which African freedom seekers attempted to escape for many years before and during the Civil War.Item Underground Railroad Bike Route Complete: Based on both historical significance and a great ride, the new route celebrates slaves' road to freedom.(2007) Barnett, Mark F.While there's no one path that escaping slaves took to claim their freedom, cyclists can get a sense of some of America's Underground Railroad history from a new bicycle route of 2,100 miles that cuts from coastal Alabama up to Canada.Item Underground Railroad Bicycle Route opens for touring(2007) Majernik, CarlaThe entire Underground Railroad Bicycle Route is now officially complete and ready to ride. The newly-printed route maps showing cycling-friendly roads, historical interest points, and camping and lodging options along the way have just arrived at our Missoula headquarters and we couldn't be more thrilled to make them available to you.Item New bicycle routes trace Underground Railroad(2007) Clark, JayneIn the 19th century, thousands of people who sought release from slavery followed the North Star to freedom. Now, bicyclists can follow a series of maps that approximate the historic 2,100-mile Underground Railroad from the Deep South into Canada.Item Conspiracy of Silence Pushes Rise in Black Suicides: Escalating Rates Point to Troubling Trend(The New Pittsburgh Courier -- Online, 2006) Johnson, C. DeniseNot talking about it won’t make the problem go away. In fact, the continuing lack of acknowledgement and/or discussion about the incidence of suicide in the Black community is responsible for a disturbing trend. Alvin Poussaint, M.D., a Harvard psychiatrist, says the stigma is even stronger in the Black community. One problem, he says, is the stigma associated with depression itself. More than 60 percent of Black individuals don’t see depression as a mental illness, which makes it unlikely they will seek help for it.Item CUT, STYLED & INFORMED; AT BLACK BARBERSHOPS AND BEAUTY SALONS, IT WAS A DAY FOR HEALTH ADVICE(2004) Massie, Michelle KMinnie Miller spoke freely to the man standing beside her about the preponderance of high blood pressure in her family. She also inquired about heart disease. But Miller was not talking to her doctor. Instead, she shared her concerns with her barber. Miller was among many customers around the city yesterday who not only received haircuts and styles from their barbers, but health advice and information too, as a part of the third annual "Take a Health Professional to the People Day" sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Minority Health.Item FOCUS ON BLACK FAMILIES' HEALTH; PITT CENTER TARGETING PREVENTABLE DISEASES(2004) Massie, Michelle KHealth care will come directly to the doorsteps of some East End residents starting early next year. The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Minority Health launched its Healthy Black Family Project yesterday in an effort to combat diabetes and hypertension among African Americans in Pittsburgh.